Technical difficulties

As I said before, I have successfully configured my browser (and Semagic, incidentally) to use the webproxy. The problem is that now I am unable to connect the MSN Messenger module in Trillian. I downloaded the actual MSN/Windows Messenger and tried to log in again; it said I was using the wrong password. I went to the Microsoft Passport and MSN homepages and both allowed me to log in with no problems.

Then I guessed that the proxy was the problem, set Messenger's options to "I use a proxy server" and entered the appropriate information (SOCKS version 5, webproxy.queensu.ca, 8080) but it said, "Unable to connect to the SOCKS proxy server." I tried setting it to SOCKS version 4 or HTTP, to no avail. I tried all the same measures with Trillian, first applying the proxy settings to all connections and then only to MSN. The other IM services all work fine no matter which setting I use, but MSN obstinately refuses to connect. Grr.

Any suggestions?

(Yes, I'm going to bed now. I've mucked about with this long enough.)

the ****ing proxy

I've figured out a work-around. It only affects Trillian when I change the settings for Internet Explorer (why is that?). So if I set IE to connect directly and set Mozilla to use the proxy, all appears to be well... provided that I never need to use IE to access university-only websites.